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Rase [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. s as z. [Latin rasus, rado.]

2. To pass along the surface of a thing, with striking or rubbing it at the same time; to graze.

3. Might not the bullet which rased his cheek, have gone into his head? obsolete

4. To erase; to scratch or rub out; or to blot out; to cancel.

5. [In this sense, erase is generally used.]

6. To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; as, to rase a city.

7. [In this sense, raze is generally used. This orthography, rase may therefore be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase and raze having superseded it.]

8. RASE , n

9. A cancel; erasure. [Not in use.]

10. A slight wound. [Not in use.]

Rase [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A scratching out, or erasure.

2. A slight wound; a scratch.

3. A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.

Rase [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.

Rase [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To rub along the surface of; to graze.

2. To rub or scratch out; to erase.

3. To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.

Rased [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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